Bottle-capper.



H. G. RICE.

BOTTLE CAPPER.

APPLICATION FILED 001229, 1917.

1I. 25h37. .Patented Feb. 26, 1918.

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It l l HAROLD Gr. RIGE, F PORTLAND, OREGON.

BOTTLE-CAREER.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Feb. 26, IWW.

Application filed October 29,1917. Serial No. 199,105.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, HAROLD G. RICE, a

l citizen of 'the United States, residing at Port- .a bottle, novel means being provided for guiding the cap into a thimble which constitutes a part of the device, and for receiving the cap after the same has been seated in the capper.

It is within the province of the disclosure to improve generally and to enhance the utility of devices of that type to which the present invention appertains. l

With the above and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 shows in slde elevation, a bottle capper constructed in accordance with the present invention;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the capper, distant parts being omitted; and

Fig. 3 is a fragmental side elevation, showing the capper in operative relation to the bottle, parts being broken away, and parts appearing in sectlon.

In carrying out the present invention there is provided a bar-like handle 1 which is sufliciently short to be manipulated inthe hand of an operator. The handle 1 preferably although not necessarily is made of wood and is rounded at one end, as shown at- 2, to coperate with the palm of the hand of the operator. Intermediate its ends, the handle 1 is reduced in diameter and tapered at 3, so that it may be gripped readily. The handle 1 is reduced in diameter to form a stem 4 and to form a circumscribing' shoulderl 5. A thimble 6, which preferably is made of metal, surrounds the stem 4 and abuts at its inner end against the shoulder 5. The outer end' of the thimble 6 is extended beyond the outer end of the stem 4. The thimble is circumferentially grooved, as shown at 7 to form an internal rib 8, engaging the stem 4, to'hold the thimble on the stem. rI`he thimble 6, Ifurther, is laterally flared, as

shown at 9, in alinement with the outer endface of-the stem 4, to receiveA a bottle cap 12, when the cap abuts. against the end of the stem 4. The thimble' 6 at its eXtreme `end is outwardly flared to form a bell-shaped mouth 10 adapted to receive the cap 12l and to guide the cap into the thimble, into abutment with the end of the stem 4.

In practical operation, the cap 12 is introduced into th thimble 6, as above de- "scribed, and abuts against the end o'f the stem 4. The cap 12 is then pressed down onto the bead 14 at the upper end of a bottle 15.

y From the foregoin it will be observed that a simple but use ul means is provided whereby,without the use of expensive machinery of any kind, a cap of the well known kind may be seated on they end of the neck of a bottle.

Having thus described the invention, whatn at its inner 'end against the shoulder, Ithe outer end of the thimble being extended beyond the outer end of the stem,

` the Vthimble being circumferentially grooved to form an internal rib engaging the stem, the thimble being laterally flared in alinement with the outer end of the stem to receive a bottle-cap, and being outwardly flared at its extreme end to form a capreceiving mouth.

In vtestimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto axed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

I-IARULD G. RICE. Witnesses:

JAMES N. HEGARDT,

FREDERICK 0. PARKS.

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